top 20 hacker news stories for 2020-04-03

Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/

6 years ago

1248 upvotes – 302 comments

How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

https://reperiendi.wordpress.com/2020/04/03/how-i-recovered-over-300k-of-bitcoin/

6 years ago

998 upvotes – 198 comments

Hardware Microphone Disconnect in Mac and iPad

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/1/web/1

6 years ago

771 upvotes – 312 comments

Three free meals available daily for any New Yorker

http://schools.nyc.gov/freemeals

6 years ago

710 upvotes – 454 comments

PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database

https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-is-the-worlds-best-database/

6 years ago

591 upvotes – 355 comments

Secret iPad

https://thinkfractional.blog/secret-ipad/

6 years ago

537 upvotes – 82 comments

How We reduced our Google Maps API cost

https://blog.cityflo.com/how-we-reduced-our-google-maps-api-cost/

6 years ago

430 upvotes – 163 comments

OpenTTD 1.10

https://www.openttd.org/news/2020/04/01/openttd-1-10-0.html

6 years ago

419 upvotes – 114 comments

Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22770643

6 years ago

391 upvotes – 320 comments

Tell HN: Launch HN Test

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767151

6 years ago

385 upvotes – 106 comments

Tell HN: Zoom runs application from Time Machine backup when uninstalled on Mac

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22773810

6 years ago

368 upvotes – 47 comments

Nim 1.2

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/04/03/version-120-released.html

6 years ago

358 upvotes – 128 comments

Apple's MacOS Server has a 1.5/5 rating on the Mac App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/os-x-server/id883878097

6 years ago

328 upvotes – 141 comments

Twitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/twitter-direct-message-caching-and-firefox/

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 69 comments

Zoom’s encryption has links to China, researchers discover

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/

6 years ago

275 upvotes – 124 comments

Illustrated FixMatch for semi-supervised learning

https://amitness.com/2020/03/fixmatch-semi-supervised/

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 47 comments

Free software tools for staying in touch

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/better-than-zoom-try-these-free-software-tools-for-staying-in-touch

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 87 comments

Facebook wanted NSO spyware to monitor users, NSO CEO claims

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pke9k9/facebook-wanted-nso-spyware-to-monitor-users

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 57 comments

How Bird Laid Off 406 People in Two Minutes via Zoom

https://dot.la/bird-layoffs-meeting-story-2645612465.html

6 years ago

217 upvotes – 176 comments

I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22769789

6 years ago

216 upvotes – 309 comments
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